• True Crime

    Searching for Hazel Drew, Whose Legend Inspired 'Twin Peaks'

    A 1908 murder in Upstate New York went unsolved for a century. The victim's ghost appeared to one author in a dream.

    June 18, 2025  By Jerry C. Drake
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    Caroline Fraser On Serial Killers, Lead Poisoning, and Other Midcentury Disasters

    The author of "Murderland" talks with Molly Odintz about the intersection of public policy and violent crime

    June 13, 2025  By Molly Odintz
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    The High Cost of Silence: My Secret Life as a Whistleblower

    In the new book, 'False Claims,' Lisa Pratta chronicles her years working undercover in Big Pharma.

    June 3, 2025  By Lisa Pratta
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    Searching for the Elusive Stephanie St. Clair, New York's "Madame Queen"

    She was a towering figure of the Harlem underground. So why don't we know more about her today?

    June 3, 2025  By Mary Kay McBrayer
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    Rich Cohen on the Murder of Jennifer Dulos and His New Book, 'Murder in the Dollhouse'

    "[S]he misunderstood something about America, which is that the idyll isn't real. It's a kind of advertising."

    May 29, 2025  By Kevin Canfield
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    1984: Enter the Crack Era

    Michael Gonzales on Harlem before and after crack.

    May 16, 2025  By Michael Gonzales
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    20 Years After, A Semblance
    of Truth and Reconciliation.
    Who Was It For?

    Abby Reyes on the long wait for justice after her partner was killed fighting for Indigenous rights against all-powerful oil companies

    May 9, 2025  By Abby Reyes
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    Everything You Thought
    You Knew About Lethal
    Injection Is Wrong

    "Lethal injection not working well is how lethal injection works."

    April 22, 2025  By Corinna Barrett Lain
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    A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

    How a prison meeting with Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice in the Candy Man murders, deepened the mystery Sharon Derrick set out to solve.

    April 2, 2025  By Lise Olsen
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    Ashley Winstead On True Crime Obsession, Amateur Sleuths, and the Weight of Grieving

    "I wanted to make an argument in this book about why more and more people are drawn to true crime."

    March 27, 2025  By Jenny Bartoy
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